Tuula
given name · Finnish · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Tuula is a given name, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country, where it is the 77th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Finnish and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Tuula är ett finskt namn, bildat på 1900-talet.
- FIFinland1 in 172◐
- SESweden1 in 5.5K
- USUnited States1 in 1.6M
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈34K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 88 ●
- 1 in 172 ◐
across 6 countries
recorded for this name
9.4K records
Official registry-verified
Finland
Spellings & scripts●
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
Tuula är ett finskt namn, bildat på 1900-talet. Det antas ha sitt ursprung i författaren Larin-Kyöstis (1873–1948) text till den populära sången Tuulan tei, med musik av Oskar Merikanto. Titeln ingår i en refräng, som är en ord- och ljudlek. Till namnets popularitet har troligen bidragit dess likhet med namnet Tuulikki (från Kalevala) och ordet tuuli ’vind, blåst’.
Sources 1
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | #77 | 32,337△ | 5.1K rec. | 1 in 172 | 41K | Tuula | 73 |
| SE Sweden | #658 | 1,859 | 1.2K rec. | 1 in 5.5K | 1.9K | Tuula | 32 |
| AU Australia | — | 298 | 290 rec. | — | 1 | Tuula | 35 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 221 | 174 rec. | — | — | Tuula | 34 |
| US United States | — | 212 | 1.9K rec. | 1 in 1.6M | 212 | Tuula | 88 |
| DE Germany | — | 210 | 182 rec. | — | 1 | Tuula | 37 |
| NO Norway | — | 116 | 12 rec. | — | 100 | Tuula | 8 |
| CA Canada | — | 106 | 88 rec. | — | — | Tuula | 24 |
| ES Spain | — | 90 | 43 rec. | — | — | Tuula | 18 |
| EE Estonia | — | 31 | 27 rec. | — | 27 | Tuula | 9 |
| DK Denmark | — | 26△ | 8 rec. | 1 in 226K | 26 | Tuula | 15 |
| TR Türkiye | — | 26 | 33 rec. | — | — | Tuula | 5 |
Roughly 32K people in Finland bear this name (about 1 in 172). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Finnish164K95%
- English2.7K2%
- Chinese1.3K1%
- Portuguese6761%
- German5941%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Finnish | 164,325 | 95% |
| English | 2,688 | 2% |
| Chinese | 1,277 | 1% |
| Portuguese | 676 | 1% |
| German | 594 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1999 | 1,878 |
| 2000 | 1,871 |
| 2001 | 1,867 |
| 2002 | 1,857 |
| 2003 | 1,847 |
| 2004 | 1,832 |
| 2005 | 1,813 |
| 2006 | 1,794 |
| 2007 | 1,781 |
| 2008 | 1,770 |
| 2009 | 1,757 |
| 2010 | 1,742 |
| 2011 | 1,722 |
| 2012 | 1,695 |
| 2013 | 1,678 |
| 2014 | 1,664 |
| 2015 | 1,651 |
| 2016 | 1,633 |
| 2017 | 1,606 |
| 2018 | 1,578 |
| 2019 | 1,566 |
| 2020 | 1,536 |
SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 22 years between 1999–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Tuula-Liina Varisb. 1942FIFinnish journalist
- Tuula Karjalainenb. 1942FITuula Karjalainen (b. 1942) is a Finnish art historian.
- Tuula Nymanb. 1943FIFinnish actress
- Tuula Gordonb. 1952FIFinnish sociologist and professor
- Tuula Teerib. 1957FIFinnish biologist
- Tuula Falkb. 1957FIFinnish designer
- Tuula Karppinenb. 1958FIFinnish track and field athlete and rower
- Tuula Haatainenb. 1960FIFinnish politician
- Tuula Puputtib. 1977FIFinnish ice hockey player
- Tuula Tenkanenb. 1990FIFinnish sailor
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 23 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 41K | #71 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 32K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 1999 | 1.9K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2000 | 1.9K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2001 | 1.9K | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 1.9K | #1,097 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2002 | 1.9K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2003 | 1.8K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2004 | 1.8K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2005 | 1.8K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2006 | 1.8K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2007 | 1.8K | — |
Reference works 3
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 47 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Tuula?
- We estimate roughly 34 thousand people bear Tuula (counting its spellings and scripts) across 6 countries in our records.
- In which country does Tuula have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 32 thousand people bear Tuula in Finland, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled tuula.
- Where is Tuula most common?
- Tuula is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 172 people carrying it.
- How common is Tuula compared with other names?
- In Finland, Tuula is the 77th most common given name of 51,554 given names recorded there.
- Is Tuula a male or female name?
- Tuula is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Tuula mean?
- Recorded meaning: Tuula är ett finskt namn, bildat på 1900-talet.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Tuula” — the 77th most common given name in Finland. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.